Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-15
IN A SMALL a
The News of the Day PoIntedly Para
graphed for Hssty Readers.

THINGS were rather quiet in the city
yesterday.
AND still Wheeling creek remains q thing
of disgust.
SOME poker rooms in town are now called
offices" An, there!
COLDS in the head are more numerous
than popular just now.
THE next base ball will be on the 9th,
with the Cuban Giants.
Two deeds of trust were admitted to re-
cord by Clerk Hooks yesterday.
A GANG who ran the shell game in
Bellaire, yesterday, are in town.
THERE were two cases before his Honor
in Police Court yesterday morning,
hartley MALoY was arrested as a plain
drunk, yesterday, by Officer Dunlap.
THE river marks on the landing last
evening indicated 81 inches and falling.
THE steamer Bellaire was forced to lay
up last evening on account of low water.
"UNCLE TOMS CABIN" at the Grand
matinee this afternoon, and also tonight.
PAvEMENTs all over town are being re-
paired, and many more of them need II
badly.
CITY taxes are coming in quite lively.
Taxpayers are taking advantage of the dis
counts.
CERT WILLIAMS was released from jail
on a bond of $500, by Justice Davis, yes
terday.
THE B. & o. has erected a new bridge
over Caldwell's run, at T~wenty-ninth and
Jacob streets.
A BAND of musicians serenade our citi-
zens every day, and the man who plays the
cornet is a dandy.
IT is probable that Wheeling may ar
range one or two more games of ball with
the Pittsburg team.
EVENING Star Lodge No. Is, X. Of P,
are called to meet at their hall, IN Ben
wood, tomorrow at noon.
BENwOOD people and those living in the
lower end of the city are anxlously wait
ing for the electric motor line.
PEOPLE who waited all summer are now
bowling and kicking because they cannot
get natural gas put in in day.
The Seventh ward base ball club will
cross bats with the Buckeyes on Sunday
afternoon. Game called at 2 O'Clock.
THE Silver Leafs vii play their last
game this season with the Elm Groves, on
the latter's grounds. Game called at 3 pm.
HUNTING is at its heighth and a great
many Nimrods are making incursions into
the woods in pursuit Of the juicy squirrel
and rabbit.
THE Wheeling Carpenters Union took
the prize at the Steubenville street fair for
the largest organization attending from
West Virginia.
n. A. HALDEMAN was yesterday APP
pointed administrator of the estate OF Mar
garet f. H%aldeman, deceased. Bond,
81, 400, n. L. Whitaker, surety.
NATURAL gas consumers have for the
past several days been Inconvenience at
intervals with an insufficient supply OF
the fuel. Can the officials give an explain
alton.
WOULDN'Tit improve the looks ofthings
to tear down those two old buildings at the
north approach to the Market street bridge?
They are worse than useless and an eye
sore.
A NEW parlor game called ''base ball'
is out, and it will doubtless become very
popular. 1t is played on a board in the
same style as 'Parchesi, " with dice and
checkers.
THE Ohio County Bar Association is
called to meet in the Court room OF Part
One OF the Circuit Court this afternoon at
3 o'clock for the election of an executive
committee.
THE Italian vendors in the city are max
ing a general complaint against the drug
stores, it is understood, because they are
giving away chestnuts free of all charge
in almanacs.
The funeral of DIR. Tailor, d. D., editor
ofthe Southeastern AdrOcdte, will be preach
Ferry. Sunday October Is, 1887, at 3 p. M,
by Rev. w. NJ. Johnson.
OFFICERS JUNKINs, Dunlap and Watson
pulled Mollie Boyd's house of i'll fame in
Alley c, last night, and captured the
madam and n man, both of whom paid
up after a brief %sojourn in the lookup.
The latest hat for ladies is the B~oulanger,
named after the famous French general.
and is very much the same shape as the
American and French military %chapeaux.
The crown is ornamented with a plume
of cocks feathers.
OFFICERS Shorts and Watson went out
to Haneytown Thursday morning on a
hnnftpn ayNaAtfinn onH rafnrnaA uEgtar-
day with ten squirrels, twelve rabbits and
two groundhogs, a fine lot of game. John
also caught the toothache.
THE river marks from above yesterday
were: MOrgantOwn, ! foot 6 inches and
stationary; Brownsville, 4 feet 6 inches,
Lock No. 4, 5 feet 2 inches and stationary;
Parker, below gauge. Clear and pleasant;
Oil City, IL inches and rising. Cloudy and
cool.
II. J. MCKERSAN, an employe Of the B.
& o. R R., was waylaid and badly beaten,
Thursday evening, just below the south
corporation line of the city by four I'M
known highwaymen. The toughs went
through their victim, but found nothing Of
value.
AT 5 o'clock this afternoon a meet
ing for the study o. the Sunday School les
son will be held in the Y. NJ. c. A. par
lors, and at 7:30 o'clock a meeting for
young men will be held at the same place;
also, at 4 o'clock tomorrow, a mems Cos
pei meeting will be held.
THE South Side Singing Society gave a
delightful select social hop at their hall
last evening, which was attended by a
number of the members and their friends.
Mayors orchestra furnished the music,
and a pleasant time was spent by all,
dancing being the principal feature Of
amusement.
The gentlemen who are to form the pro-
posed driving club will meet next Monday
night at the Chamber Of Commerce for the
purpose of organization and election of Off
GERS. About thirty we'll known gentlemen
have signified their intention of becoming
members, and the prospects for a gentle
mems driving association that will be a
credit to the city are very l~attering.
THE Young Mems Democratic CLUB held
a special meeting, last evening, at their
rooms, to take action in reference to the
illness of Mr.. Henry Schmidt, a member.